Politics and Identity Formation in Southeastern Nigeria (eBook, ePUB)

The Igbo in Perspective
Redaktion: Nwauwa, Apollos O.; Anyanwu, Ogechi E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scholarly studies on the Igbo have been scant and fragmented. Politics and Identity Formation in Southeastern Nigeria: The Igbo in Perspective fills an obvious gap, exploring the social, cultural,economic, political, and aesthetic traditions that distinguish the Igbo of southeasternNigeria from their neighbors. In scope, content, and analysis this book is both multi- and cross-disciplinary, focusing on the experiences and forces that have shaped the Igbo society, identity formation, and sociocultural, political, and aesthetic representations. Themes such as the importance ofIgbo names in understanding the people's social, linguistic, religious, gender, and cultural identities, as well as the intersection of language, politics, socialization, education, and aesthetic expression in the Igbo experience in Nigeria, are interrogated in a refreshing fashion with an appreciable level of originality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498589932
• Artikelnr.: 56897725

Autorenporträt

Apollos O. Nwauwa is professor of history and Africana studies at Bowling Green State University. Ogechi E. Anyanwu is professor of history and African studies at Eastern Kentucky University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Identity and Pride in Igbo Names: A Reflection on Igbo Cultural
Naming Tradition
Chapter 2:A Panoramic Study of Names in Igbo Society
Chapter 3: A Sociolinguistic Survey of Family Names Among the Igbo in
Nigeria
Chapter 4: Recreationality of Igbo Onomastics: A Clog in the wheel of
Progress
Chapter 5: Textile and Fashion Museums: A Panacea for Sustaining the
Indigenous Dress Culture in Igbo Land
Chapter 6: Actuality or Misogyny?: Depiction of Women in the Lyrics of Igbo
Rap Music
Chapter 7: Eshe, Inheritance and Endangered Community Performance for the
Dead
Chapter 8: The Use of Computer Assisted Language Learning to develop the
Igbo Language Skills among Students
Chapter 9: Dialectal Variation: Building Innovative Ideas into Cultural
Method of Agriculture in Igbo Communities
Chapter 10: Speech Act Analysis of Burial Rites: The Nsirimo Speech
Community Experience
Chapter 11: Of? Nd?, Ogu Nd?: Hermeneutical Investigation of the Igbo
Concept of Ogu Eji Ofo Anu (just war)
Chapter 12: Politics Without Bitterness: The Language Use Perspective
Chapter 13: One Nigeria: A Paradox of a Slogan in the Systemic
Marginalization of the Igbo People in National Affairs, 1953-1980
Chapter 14: Strategizing Igbo Values in School Curriculum in Igboland: A
linguist's Perspective